The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-02-09


was last week married by proxy to Miss
Nina Van Zandt.
THE New Jersey senate finally organized
last week. Frederick S. Fisher (republican)
was elected president.
THE italian army in the Soudan has been
fearfully beaten by the Arabs, and will at
once be largely reinforced.
THE children of the Apaches imprisoned
at Fort Marion, St. Augustine, Fla, are be-
ing educated at Carlisle, Pa.
A COMPANY with fifteen millions capital
has begun laying pipe for natural gas from
Findlay, Ohio, to Cincinnati.
THERE is talk of impeaching Secretary
Manning for violating the law in regard to
the redemption of bank-notes
THE extensive warehouse of the Drum
mond Tobacco Company at st. Louis was
burned recently; loss S250,000
ONE hundred men have left Salem shoe
factory because the firm refuses to reinstate
stitcher who was discharged
CINCINNATI is again afflicted with food
which threatens to be as disastrous as that
which occurred four years ago.
THE Harmony mill, where mosquito net
ting was made, was burned at Paterson,
n. j., Friday night; loss S250,0O0.
In Wall street the belief prevails that
Congressman Scott of Erie, Pa, will be
the new secretary of the treasury.
THE agreement of the British government
to send men .of-war to Canadian waters has
no reference to the retaliation bill
OUT of four hundred eighty Italian troops
engaged in the recent battle with the
Abyssinans not more than fifty escaped
A FIRE Quilted the woman's department of
the State Industrial School at Rochester, n.
Y. Ninety-siX inmates were rescued; loss
100000.
Tn ,.iJ ~ pot Il pf
City is trying to break his will, by which
most of his S250,000 estate goes to Hamilton
College, New York.
REV. HENRY WARD BEECHER and Dr.
Howard Crosby think that Father McGlynn
is right morally, but wrong from an ecclesi-
astical point of view.
SWIFT Mcneil. nationalist, defeated
Henry Rumster, liberal unionist for parlia-
ment at the election in South Donegal. The
vote was 1904 to 1888
THERE are grave fears in Maine that tu-
berculosis from the infected herd of the
State College has been spread through the
eastern part of the state.
A wIND-sToRM blew down tree in a Chi
nese camp in the Cascade Mountains. Nine
dead bodies have been recovered; twelve
others were badly injured.
FOUR schoolgirls, aged ~ or less, were
burned to death in a school-house at ST.
the daughters of a man named Ambrose.
MrDwINTER thunder-storms are reported
from Cincinnati and Alton, ILL., At the
latter place William G. Lee was killed by
lightning while sitting at the dinnertable.
THE Franklin street Congregational So
ciety of Manchester, n. H., adopted resolu-
tions last week condemning the course taken
by the American Board in the Hume matter
MAXWELL, the author of the st. Louis
Il.
last Thursday, has been granted a stay of
execution till April l, pending an appeal for
a new trial.
AN investigation has been made into the
alleged unfair treatment of a Monson
(Mass.) lady by Rev. +. II, Byington, pastor
of the Congregational church of that place.
The pastor is completely exonerated by the
report.
THE annex to the National Hotel at
Helena, Montana, and other buildings were
burned last week Loss $4,000; insurance
$4,000. The thermometer was 40' below
zero. One man is thought to have been
burned to death.
THE British ship Kapunda," which left
London December II for Fremantle, West
ern Australia, with emigrants, came into
collision near the coast of Brazil with an
unknown vessel and was sunk. Three
hundred were drowned; the remainder were
saved.
A SPECIAL from Fargo Dakota, says each
blizzard seems more severe and terrible
than its predecessor. The storm between
jamestown and Fargo has been worse than
any in the history of the country. The
thermometer ranges between 25o and 800
below zero.
LEADING democrat, on good terms at
the White House, says the following will be
members of the interstate commerce COM
mission: Allen G. Thurman, William
Window, John d. Herman, General j. ii.
Wilson, formerly president of the New York
and New England railroad, Judge Cooley
of Michigan and Ex-Governor James Milton
Smith of Georgia.
Two accidents are reported on the North
ern Pacific railroad, One passenger train
was derailed by snow and thrown down an
embankment on to the ice in the Yellow
stone river, but there were no fires and no
loss of life. A train was demolished at Gar
rison station. The engines and snow-plow
were ditChed and Stark Jones, the engineer
was killed. ten others were seriously in
jured.
JUDGE SPENCER of Buchanan county, Mo,
has decided that minor children of natural
lied American citizens are not made citi-
zens of the United States by the naturaliza-
ton of their fathers. The decision has
created great excitement throughout the
state, and particularly in st. Louis, where
thousands of such persons have exercised
tne elective 1rancnlSe. II the decision
stands they are aliens.
GOVERNOR LARRABEE Of Iowa has granted
papers for the eXtradition of John Stehr
from Iowa to Kansas. Stehr borrowed
several hundred dollars of Washington
Ciansas) money-lender, giving a mortgage
upon five white steers which he claimed to
have on his farm. At the expiration of the
stipulated time the money-lender demanded
the steers, only to find that the mortgage
covered five lusty boys